Improvement in organ reed-boards



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RILEY BURDETT, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ORGAN REED-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent ITO-155,178, dated September 22, 1874.; li ti fil d June 13, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RILEY BURDETT, of Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Reed-Organs, of which the following is a specification:

This device is illustrated in the accompanying; drawing, which is a transverse sectional view of it.

The object of my invention is to strengthen and purify the recd tone.

A shows the foundation-board. B shows the reed-cell to vibrate the reed, so as to produce a greatly improved and strengthened tone over that tone from a reed-cell as ordinarily constructed.

I am aware that the reed-cell has, been extended upward and rearward, as in Goodmans patent, No. 109,003, and also of the construction of W. J. Kent, No.14A,59. These are not my inventions, and their efi'eots are not like the efi'eot of mine.

What I claim is A reed-board provided with the cells B, and having the chambered recesses or cells C arranged relatively thereto as described and shown.

RILEY BURDETT.

Witnesses:

CHAS. G. CONVERSE, F.W. METCALF. 

